A petition, filed by an NGO on behalf of the staff, stated that while the teachers had not been paid for March and April, they were given minuscule amounts like Rs 4 and Rs 8 as salary after tax deduction in February.

A standoff between the state government and private hospitals on a health insurance scheme for the poor has affected scores of cancer patients, who are forced to scramble for funds or queue up at government facilities to complete treatment.

Even though there is still a doctor in Civil Hospital to help patients in case of emergency, both doctors and patients have raised concerns over shifting different departments to different locations, as they feel services will be affected and patients will have to bear the brunt.

Over 170 patients from the Thane mental hospital will be temporarily shifted to the Pune and Ratnagiri mental hospitals as part of the hospital land is being carved out for construction of the proposed Kopri railway station.

The number of women patients at the burns ward of Victoria Hospital has not only declined but has also been lower than that of male patients for two years. Doctors see this as a sign of the reduction in women using inflammable substances like kerosene to commit suicide.

Two days after a man was murdered at LG Hospital in Maninagar, the hospital saw another violent incident on Thursday, when the relatives of a patient assaulted bouncers deployed near the trauma ward as the did not allow the relatives to enter.

Doctors at Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College and Hospital (SLBSGMCH) here were shocked to recover a knife, spoons, screwdrivers, toothbrushes and a small steel bar from the stomach of a patient who was admitted to the hospital with stomach pain on Thursday.